“The Americans have plentifully enjoyed the delights and comforts, as well as the necessaries of life,” said the Newport Mercury, “and it is well known that an increase of wealth and affluence paves the way to an increase of luxury, immorality and profaneness, and here kind providence interposes; and as it were, obliges them to forsake the use of one of their delights, to preserve their liberty.”

With cannabis legally and plentifully available, its use is much higher in Amsterdam (almost 3 times more) than in the rest of the country (note: 80% of Dutch municipalities do not allow the sale of marijuana).

And it is absolutely true that those from the smallest states, with the largest populations, and the least amount of public land are the ones who wish so fervently to tyrannize the public land that is found plentifully in the western, more rural states, and to dictate how those living in these states can and cannot live their lives and do their jobs, or even if they can do their jobs at all.